PRIMAVERA DE FILIPPI
Primavera De Filippi is a legal scholar, internet activist and artist, who focuses specifically on the legal and political implications of blockchain technology. She is a Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Her research focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, with specific focus on governance and trust. She was a founding member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies at the World Economic Forum, and co-founder of the Internet Governance Forum’s dynamic coalitions on Blockchain Technology (COALA). Primavera is the author of the book “Blockchain and the Law,” published in 2018 by Harvard University Press (co-authored with Aaron Wright).
As an artist, she produces mechanical algorithms that instantiate her legal research into the physical world, such as the Plantoid project. Her works have been exhibited in various venues including Ars Electronica, HEK Museum of Digital Arts (Basel), Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (San Francisco), and many more.
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PLANTOÏD #5
Sculpture
A Blockchain-based life-form
Exhibited at “Automat und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019